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Medina Spirit fends off Mandaloun in the 2021 Kentucky Derby
The lyrics of Dan Fogleberg s song Run for the Roses, “the chance of a lifetime in a lifetime of chance,” are well understood in assessing Medina Spirit, the winner of the 2021 Kentucky Derby. By measures of pedigree fashion, economic success, or marquee appeal, the dark brown son of Protonico and Mongolian Changa (by Brilliant Speed) was not a star.
But in the Grade 1 classic at Churchill Downs, the colt who cost $1,000 as a short yearling, by an under-appreciated sire and out of a mare who was given away, bucked the odds, flattened the probabilities, and looked like several million dollars as he led from early till late and won the Kentucky Derby by a half-length from Mandaloun (Into Mischief).
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Medaglia d Oro
With the graded stakes victories of Moonlight d Oro and Risk Taking over the weekend, their sire Medaglia d Oro now has 76 graded stakes winners worldwide, from 148 stakes winners bred in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. Moonlight d Oro won the Grade 3 Las Virgenes Stakes at Santa Anita on Feb. 8, and shortly thereafter on Saturday, Risk Taking won the G3 Withers at Aqueduct. It was the first stakes victory for each horse.
Their sire is most famous for the champions Rachel Alexandra (Kentucky Oaks, Preakness Stakes, Haskell) and Songbird (Breeders Cup Juvenile Fillies and eight other Grade 1 races), but there is no question that Medaglia d Oro is a gold medal stallion.
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